New Manga Shout Out: 7/15/13 - 7/21/13

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. This weekly article introduces you to manga that are new and/or have not been scanlated yet. This week features a Buddhist monk/doctor, a gladiator arena in Japan, and a female German tank squad. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

Matsumoto is a Buddhist monk and an emergency physician. When he was young, he watched one of his friends drown in the river when they were out fishing. Since then, he was determined to learn how to swim, save the souls of others by becoming a Buddhist monk, and save lives by becoming a doctor. Now, he stops nothing short of saving his patients, spiritually and physically.

Four years after high school, Mine is working as a miko at a famous love shrine. However, she has no love of her own. One day, two men come to do a report on the shrine, and Mine is surprised to find that they are her high school friends, Fuji and Nagi. Mine had a desperate crush on Fuji all through high school, though she never confessed her feelings. Seeing him again, all the old feelings have come back. But with her intense focus on Fuji, she may be missing some important hints about Nagi's feelings towards her...

Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Toki Taouma, nicknamed "Ashura", joins these arenas and devastates his opponents. His spectacular ability to crush his enemies catches the attention of the big business owners, including the Nogi Group chairman, Nogi Hideki.

Odagiri Shindo and his daughter Moe run the toy shop "Daidalon," which often struggles just to break even. Shindo is an enthusiastic, if not very business-savvy, man, who likes to dress up as the hero "Shindo-man" for his store. Moe is a much harsher, less easygoing shopkeeper. While she's often exasperated by her father's antics, she sometimes ends up cooperating with him!

This is the fictional story of an all-female German tank squad, which was "lost in the darkness of history," called Schaferhund. They're fierce fighters who don't fear death, and who think of themselves as expendable. They are typically up against the resistance, who will even use children to murder German soldiers. One day, they get a new commander, a young man who values the human lives of the people under his command. There's plenty of friction between the former acting commander of the squad, Kaya, and the new commander--and not only because he accidentally saw her (and many other female soldiers) mostly naked. What will the future hold in store for Schaferhund?

I am the "strawberry patterned underwear." My owner is a school girl. Now that she has matured, she does not wear me much anymore... The black laced underwear gets worn often, but I am forgotten. I want my owner to wear me again.

Thanks go to DrCoke for the summary.

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Note to all scanlators: If you recently started scanlating a new manga series (with about 5 or less chapters released) and would like your manga to be shouted out in the next New Manga Shout Out, then please PM me. Please include:

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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Kodomo no Mikata was a cute comedy-- Moe and her father's personalities played off of each other well. En Musubi Koi Musubi was a pretty good romance, too, and much less like a standard love triangle story than my summary might have made it sound.Here's what DrCoke had to say: